[A funny thing, this drug cocktail of Tohru's, of Makoto's invention. Everything seems to be in slow motion. Slow enough that Taning is running figures in his head.
He's also got Forces mage sight, Read Matrices, on, because he's a cheating cheater like that.
He catches up to the ball and sends it to the center of the table with a slice, slowing it down enough to go back to center position. Again he settles Kaz into a comfortable rally; easy enough that the young man can hit on instinct alone, but difficult enough that he doesn't get many opportunities to set up a smash or a cross-courter.
And then, Taning sees a gust of wind coming half a second before it arrives. He aims at the center of the table, ostensibly to drop it, but really to catch the gust as soon as it arrives. When it does, the ball is carried to the leftmost side of the table, very near the net.
Give Kaz a lot of credit: he actually makes it to that ball and sends it back over to his side. But...
The chances of you sending this back, as Taning rips a backhand to the far right corner, are at zero percent.
Nico deftly caught the ball with his hand before it reached his face.]
:) :) :)
He's also got Forces mage sight, Read Matrices, on, because he's a cheating cheater like that.
He catches up to the ball and sends it to the center of the table with a slice, slowing it down enough to go back to center position. Again he settles Kaz into a comfortable rally; easy enough that the young man can hit on instinct alone, but difficult enough that he doesn't get many opportunities to set up a smash or a cross-courter.
And then, Taning sees a gust of wind coming half a second before it arrives. He aims at the center of the table, ostensibly to drop it, but really to catch the gust as soon as it arrives. When it does, the ball is carried to the leftmost side of the table, very near the net.
Give Kaz a lot of credit: he actually makes it to that ball and sends it back over to his side. But...
The chances of you sending this back, as Taning rips a backhand to the far right corner, are at zero percent.
Nico deftly caught the ball with his hand before it reached his face.]
Oops, sorry Nico!